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despite curious advice offered us to seek this mountain-rill-loving species in the 

 Black Forest. On the extreme summits of mountains P. trepidaria was taken 

 occasionally, C. fv.rcatellus not uncommonly, and two specimens of the rare Eudorea 

 aVpina. Here, also, 8. alternana occurred. 



A long and tedious expedition to Loch Ericht yielded nothing on the way, but 

 ended in the capture of P. monticolana commonly on rough grassy slopes above the 

 lake, and a view which certainly may vie in surpassing grandeur with any in 

 Scotland. 



The leading peculiarity of the season in the north has certainly been its late- 

 ness. Many species were more than a month behind time — as instances of which 

 it may be stated that F. irunneata was not well out before 5th August, and that 

 E. Cassiope occurred in good condition on Ben Lawers as late as 15th August. 



Many larvaa were very plentiful at Kannoch this year ; but for the difficulty 

 of conveying them home, this mode of collecting would prove very profitable. C. 

 furcula was abundant, but only just out of the egg ; N. dromedarius was found both 

 young and full-grown ; C. reclusa was common on sallows ; and D.fascelina occurred 

 frequently on heath, with numbers of F. atomaria. Careful work would, no doubt, 

 have produced other larvae. — T. & J. B. Blackburn, Grassmeade, Southfields, 

 Wandsworth, S.W. 



V(Mfiessa Atalcmta at light. — Vanessa Atalanta came to light at half-past ten 

 the other night. T put up a gas-light at a closed window, because I had caught 

 Ewpitliecia alhipunctata at it, and after about an hour V. Atalanta made his 

 appearance ; I opened the window, and he soon came in, and I caught him. — 

 R. C. E. Jordan, M.D., 35, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmin'gham. 



Emmclesia alhulata partially double-hrooded. — I captured a fresh and perfect 

 specimen of this moth on 23rd of last August, showing that the species may be 

 partially double-brooded ; when I reared it in confinement the larvse spun up early 

 in July, but no moths appeared until the beginning of June in the nest year. — 

 J. Hellins, October 9th, 1867. 



Heliothis armigera at ivy-bloom. — On Tuesday (Oct. 16tli) I took two males of 

 this species ; one in very fine, the other in rather worn, condition : I hope to secure 

 more.— T. Tekry, Babbicombe, October 18th, 1867. 



Oposiefifct reliquella, a new British species. — Thi'oe specimens of this insect 

 (which is closely allied to 0. salaciella) have been captured by the Hon. Thomas 

 de Grey, M.P., near Thetford. One was taken last year in an open grass plot on 

 the outskirts of a wood ; another was caught exactly in the same spot about the 

 middle of June this year (but unfortunately escaped) ; the third specimen, which 

 I have seen, was beaten early in August from mixed growth in a grassy I'ide in the 

 woods, about 150 yards from the spot where the other two were taken. — H. T. 

 Stainton, October 22nd, 1867. 



§n\nnl Information. 



The proposed Catalogue of British Insects. — The Rev. T. A. Marshall (MUford, 

 S. Wales) who has undertaken the Froctotrupidoi, and others of the obscure groups 



